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“Euprera Jos Willems Awards” is the first European wide competition to find the best Bachelor and Master thesis of students in public relations or communication studies.
Winners will be awarded at the Euprera annual congress in Istanbul, September 20-22. This year...

For the first time, Australia will be hosting the World Public Relations Forum later this year, on November 18-20.
The event brings the world’s leading communicators together to present new methods and research, and ideas in the field of professional communication.
An...

Nairobi, May 10th 2012 - Members of the Public Relations Society of Kenya have endorsed far-reaching measures that will to boost minimum qualifications for practicing professionals in the public and private sector.
The association’s Annual General Meeting approved the...

After a year coping with disasters and emergencies, New Zealand practitioners were challenged with reshaping communities at the ‘Our Space, Our Place’ conference in Auckland during May.
Over 12 months, practitioners have dealt with several major earthquakes and the...

What do bright lights, a red carpet, fancy theatre, coveted awards and an enthralled crowd remind you of? Oscars? Grammys? Golden Globes? How about the CPRS National Awards of Excellence? Communicators from across Canada come together every year during the annual Canadian Public...

By Juan Iramain*
Social networks are only the symptom of the greatest challenge ever faced by companies in their history, and PR has a role in that.
We are not considering if employees should or shouldn’t spend their time on Facebook or Twitter during working hours....

Global Alliance is calling all members and practitioners to have their say in a five minute survey looking to refine the usefulness of the Landscapes project to discover how, when and why they are used and where they could be improved.
The PR landscapes is a project initiated by The...

The Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management increases its presence in Latin America and in Eastern Europe as two new members join the confederation of the world's major PR and communication management associations and institutions.
A warm welcome to the...

Enel, a leading multinational energy company and a Global Alliance 2012 Partner, is supporting a GA international study of the rapidly evolving progress in advanced corporate external relations. The study is scheduled to be published and discussed at length at the World Public Relations Forum in...

Thursday 17 May 2012 - Former Al-Jazeera Director General, Wadah Khanfar is to speak at the World Public Relations Forum being held in Melbourne, Australia on 18-20 November this year.
Khanfar is one of the people responsible for changing the international media landscape in the last...